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Bulletin of the American Physical Society
54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 57, Number 12
Monday–Friday, October 29–November 2 2012; Providence, Rhode Island
Session PI2: Plasma Wall Interactions, Disruptions, and Plasma Technology
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Room: Ballroom DE
Chair: Michael Jaworski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2012.DPP.PI2.6
Abstract: PI2.00006 : Novel functional composites of plasmas and metamaterials
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Osamu Sakai
(Kyoto University)
Plasmas, which are fairly frequency-dispersive in their dielectric properties, have tunable and nonlinear features that cannot be achieved using other solids and liquids. Such features on variable complex permittivity can be activated in metamaterial structure; when we combine plasmas with metamaterials which have functional micro-structures leading to designable permeability, we can expect a quite broad range of negative refractive index on its complex plane for electromagnetic waves. Furthermore, if a given electromagnetic wave has sufficient wave amplitude to modulate electron density, such a composite work as a strong nonlinear medium with adjustability through the metamaterial features. Such kinds of arguments are reviewed in our recent reports [1,2]. One of the specific physical properties emerging in plasma metamaterials is an exchange phenomenon between attenuation and phase shift via regulated permeability. Conventional collisional plasmas work simply as attenuators for electromagnetic waves, but superposition of a negative permeability state induces significant phase shift of propagating waves with less attenuation. Another example is simultaneous generation of a high-density plasma with a negative-refractive-index state; we predicted quite strong nonlinear processes with double saddle-node bifurcations during this phenomenon, and verified them in our recent experiments. Such composites of plasmas and metamaterials will provide new scientific opportunities as well as industrial applications.\\[4pt] [1] O. Sakai et al., Physics of Plasmas, vol. 17 (2010), 123504.\\[0pt] [2] O. Sakai et al., Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., vol. 21 (2012), 013001.
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Officers investigating an aggravated burglary in Frodsham have charged a third man in relation to the incident.
Rhys Allen, 21, was arrested on Tuesday 5 September as part of an ongoing investigation to an aggravated burglary that occurred at an address in the Fairways area of Frodsham on Tuesday 28 March.
Allen, of Stanney Park Avenue South, Liverpool, has been charged with robbery, possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm while committing an offence.
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A two-fer of 1930s blues/jazz/gospel from the movie, The Great Debater, courtesy of Sharon Jones, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
Great music, interlaced with video from the film. Fine combo.
Special thanks to Seth Weinberger for suggesting it. I never even knew, and, man, was I missing something.


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One of the most trite and overused catchphrases of the 2010 General Election was the charge that David Cameron often lobbed at then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
"You failed to fix the roof while the sun was shining!" He used to boom, usually to a chorus of cheers from his backbenchers in the Commons.
Never one to miss a PR-opportunity, Mr Cameron and some of his most senior Cabinet minister are now lining up to do something similar: fiddle the figures while Labour's lost-at-sea. Ok, it's not as catchy, but it has become evident over the last few days that the government intends to lean on the independent Office for National Statistics to remove students from the UK's net migration figures.
I see the establishment is moving to take students OUT of the net migration target. Once again fiddling the figures.
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) September 11, 2015
And this isn't a value judgement on what they're doing. There are arguments for and against it. The against wins out slightly because other countries' figures use the same measure, and staying in line with them helps create context for what immigration in the UK continues to look like compared to others.
Yet the timing gives the move a seedy sort of feeling that hasn't gone unnoticed. Writing at ConHome, former MP Paul Goodman observed:
"…consider the political context. Immigration is at a record high. The Government has announced that it will accept 20,000 Syrian refugees. Is this really the right time to try to take students, when net student immigration appears to be about 150,000 a year – some half of the total figure – out of the statistics, thus stoking claims of "fiddling the figures"?
"Theresa May is absolutely right to believe not – and, of course, there is no mandate for it in the Conservative Manifesto of only four months ago. But you can almost hear the case made by Ministers now – George Osborne, Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid, according to the Times's report. Do it now while Labour is in chaos! Act now while there's no opposition!"
Foreign secretary has already pleaded with the government to exclude student figures from the migration numbers, so they could be legitimately excepted from the squeeze. Channel 4 News reports he wrote to the Prime Minister: "From a foreign policy point of view, Britain's role as a world class destination for international students is a highly significant element of our soft power offer. It's an issue that's consistently raised with me by our foreign counterparts."
So this is probably just another cynical ploy by Cameron and his cronies. And perhaps a better analogy would be another from the last Labour government: this is a good time for the Conservative Party to bury bad news. But even if Labour won't hold them to account, you can bet we and the British public will.


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SYDNEY — World renowned economist and coiner of the term "BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China)" Jim O'Neill has said China's Belt and Road initiative could "completely transform" the global economic outlook for the better.
O'Neill, who visited Sydney last week for an economic forum, spoke to Xinhua on March 13 via telephone from his office in London, praising the work of the Chinese government in actioning the Belt and Road initiative.
The initiative, proposed by China in 2013, amis to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
The initiative demonstrates China's rapid progress in becoming the center of the global economic sphere, the economist said.
"It's one of a number of potential additional trade developments which simply add to my view that the nature of global trade is changing dramatically, and the United States does not dominate in the same way it once did," O'Neill said.
"I think the Belt and Road initiative has the potential to completely transform the economic outlook for those countries that lie between China and Europe, and result in all sorts of exciting things with respect to trade developments for China and many other countries."
China "dominates" global trade, O'Neill said, highlighting recent statistics out of Europe that show that China has become the trading partner of choice for many European nations.
"The most interesting statistic I've seen so far in 2017 was the release of the final German trade data for the whole of last year," O'Neill said.
"It shows that China has become Germany's number one trade partner, if you combine imports and exports, overtaking the United States and France."
One of the "realities" of this "new era" of trade is that China is not only becoming the number one partner of choice for commodity driven nations, but for nations that specialize in premium goods, and a wide range of services, O'Neill said, envisioning close cooperation with China by the United States in terms of continued and robust trade relations.
"As China goes further up the income stream, it's a really good market for the United States to export some of its best products and best businesses to." O'Neill said.
Free trade is crucial to the development of the global economy and O'Neill spoke of his own experiences in the British Parliament, highlighting the need for his native Britain to engage with trading partners around the world, and in particular, China.
"I certainly think for post-Brexit Britain, it's absolutely crucial to be trying to do improve its trade relationships with the likes of China and Asia," O'Neill said.
"I was in the government until last September, and I was in the middle of what seemed to be quite strong, successful efforts to develop the so called golden relationship' with China, and the reason why we did it was because of the potential for British trade and investment relationships with China."
But it is not just trade partnerships that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations are focused on developing, with global governance and policy consensus crucial to ensuring the social development not only of the member nations, but those they are able to influence for the better.
O'Neill is hopeful that the nations will make even further strides towards becoming bigger influencers on the global scale, despite the understandable challenges they face when bridging cultural and political differences between their countries.
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"I think they can play a really powerful leadership role there, as well as more conventional things like the state of the world, financial markets, and so on."


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I notice you mention the 517th. I am looking for information on the 517PRCT. Was it attached to the 82nd after anvil/dragon?
My cousin, 1st Lt Henry Kleinendorst was in the 517PRCT. He was in Market Garden, I can't find any reference to where they were in Holland. Also interested in where the unit went after Market Garden.
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Exploring Illusion with Lucy Rose Kerr
"Ambiguity is uncertainty and it is vagueness, it contradicts the pillars of reality and the routine we are encouraged to believe in, but which are equally uncertain, a bigger illusion in fact."
Lucy Rose Kerr's work pulls you in like a dark fairy tale; a storybook set in her native English countryside. Exploring realms of newness, otherness, and "stuffness," as she calls it, the young artist oscillates between light and dark, fantasy and reality. There is a definite theme of polarity present in Kerr's work, a certain balance of opposites. The ethereal installations and illusions offer a moody voyage into the artist's mind, evoking feelings that shift subtly between daydream and nightmare. Kerr's illustrations waver between the abstract and narrative, creating landscapes and worlds that are full of mystery. Kerr has the rare gift of creating work that leaves it largely up to the viewer to decide what they are seeing—forcing her audience deep into their own minds in order to process what is in front of them. Intrigued, we asked the clever, poignant artist a few more questions about her captivating body of work.


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Children who were expected to start classes today at a South Jersey school will now stay at home even longer after serving the 21-day waiting period meant for those traveling from Africa, the school district announced.
However, the district — Maple Shade Schools in Burlington County— is now catching heat since many are accusing officials of discriminating against African students. Superintendent Beth Norcia took to the website again Monday afternoon after her original post letting parents know that the students would be staying home another week.
"Our schools have become the unwitting 'face' of our nation's fears with regard to pressing health concerns," she wrote. "None of the actions that have shined the regional light of media exposure on Maple Shade Schools was mean-spirited or ill intended."
The students in question are not suffering from Ebola symptoms nor are they from an infected area of Africa. Norcia said in the original letter that the children's parents have "elected to keep their children home past the 21-day waiting period." The second letter says "Next week, we will welcome the new students whose parents graciously offered to keep them close this week."
The children are from Rwanda which is more than 2,500 miles away from the affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in West Africa.
The original letter to parents on the school district's website reads:
"The Maple Shade School District takes the health of all students and staff very seriously. As many of you are aware, we have students who have spent time in the eastern portion of Africa that were scheduled to start in our schools on Monday. This area of Africa has been unaffected by the Ebola virus. Despite the fact that the students are symptom-free andnotfrom an affected area, the parents have elected to keep their children home past the 21 day waiting period. The family is looking forward to joining the Maple Shade Schools the following week."
The updated letter includes:
"If we step back as a community, it is clear that we are of one mind. We all care about our children. New parents were anxious to enroll their children in our public school system. A staff member was anxious to allay any possible fears even before they arose. Community members raised questions about potential health risks to all of our children."
Norcia responded to an email sent to her Monday afternoon directing us to the school district's website. She added: "I appreciate everyone's concern and hope everyone respects our privacy as we continue to move our focus back on educating all of our children."


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Updates on Skandar's Site
Posted December 15, 2009 12:46 pm by fantasia_kitty
Skandar's official site has been updated to mention that filming has wrapped on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, how he's received his official PADI certificate in scuba diving, and Sebastian Keynes the Giant Tortoise. You can check out the updates on his site here. Thanks to everyone who sent this story in!
19 Comments For This Story
220chrisTian says: December 15th, 2009 on 1:01 PM
Skandar aka Sebastian is on Facebook! If you are too, become his friend! And PRAY!!! 🙂
pselpevensie says: December 15th, 2009 on 6:35 PM
is skandar sebastian?
fnafa4ever says: December 15th, 2009 on 6:46 PM
Yeah, who is Sebastian?
skandarLover45 says: December 21st, 2009 on 10:22 AM
Wow you don't know who Sebastain is? You really did not read the article.
fnafa4ever says: December 15th, 2009 on 6:46 PM
Also what's with the giant tortoise?
220chrisTian says: December 16th, 2009 on 10:25 AM
Someone in the Keynes family, either Skandar or his dad Randal, created a "profile" page [like he's a person, *rolls eyes*] for Sebastian, a Giant Tortoise in the Galapagos Islands. Here's the FB page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=100000039330264
Warrior 4 Jesus says: December 19th, 2009 on 12:54 AM
Christian, it's just a bit of fun. You don't have to be so serious about it all. As for Skandar's ties to Charles Darwin, that's something of concern but it's between him and God.
Narnia Lover says: December 15th, 2009 on 6:57 PM
Cool! Skandar! Ne! My favorite! 🙂
LL says: December 16th, 2009 on 10:02 AM
I'm happy for him! <3
ernesto says: December 16th, 2009 on 11:11 AM
y eso de que tiene que ver una tortuga a una pelicula de Narnia eh a bueno esta bien bye.
Anonymous Narnian says: December 16th, 2009 on 11:12 AM
It's so funny how his site keeps saying "Wait until you see the film!" Wonder if they're trying to get a message across? 😉
Liberty Hoffman says: December 16th, 2009 on 2:17 PM
he named a tortoise? cool!
iLiveInNarnia says: December 17th, 2009 on 5:45 AM
I still have not added him yet, I dont know if I am going to. I messaged him, and he was like, Im a turtle, forgive my typing skills, ctrl alt delete is impossible too. I am one of the turtles that Skandar and his dad are interested in…blah blah blah
I think i may Just add him to add him. I dont like this whole turtle "project" though…
220chrisTian says: December 17th, 2009 on 1:10 PM
I'm beginning to think Sebastian is Randal K. But I could be wrong. I don't like the turtle project either. 🙁 But it's nice to keep in touch. He even posted an Aslan's Country link on the Galagagos Islands Facebook page! On his own page, Sebastian's typing skills are pretty good… 😉
Warrior 4 Jesus says: December 19th, 2009 on 12:58 AM
Why don't you like the tortoise project? They're just researching them to provide better help for them. I'm confused. I thought it was a noble endeavour.
220chrisTian says: December 28th, 2009 on 3:21 PM
Warrior: my problem with the turtle project is the basis / assumptions behind it, i.e. evolution. There's no link between humans and tortoises, or between tortoises or any other animal. If they want to help turtles, fine. But their research isn't Christian-based, is it? That's my point. There's Christian science and evolutionary science and the two do not and cannot coexist.
Narniangirl says: December 18th, 2009 on 7:46 AM
I can't help but wonder why Skandar is bare footed in that photo – but I love that longer wavy hair!!! 😀
220chrisTian says: December 28th, 2009 on 3:23 PM
I don't like Skandar's wavy hair. Sorry. I liked the short look in 2008. 😉 Why is he bare-footed? Most likely because he had just come out of the water and put on some clothes to get the pic with his certificate. He didn't have time for shoes. 😉
Katana says: December 22nd, 2009 on 8:34 PM
wow haha Skandar always did have a funky sense of humor.


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On Friday's broadcast of "Fox & Friends," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) picked up where he left off on election night in attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Paul continued to hammer the point that in stops where both Clintons campaigned for midterm candidates, to which those candidates portrayed themselves as Clinton Democrats, which turned out to be to their detriment.
"You know, they actually ran as Clinton Democrats," Paul said. "They tried to separate themselves from the president and there is this whole mantra that developed during the campaign where the president is unpopular, but Hillary is popular. My point is they all ran to separate themselves from the president, they wanted to be associated as Clinton Democrats, and they all were soundly rejected. So there is a message here about Hillary Clinton as much as there is a message about the president."
Paul dismissed the notion that the Clinton-southern Democrat brand was strong in the South, including in Kentucky.
"They've been saying that in Kentucky for 20 years, ever since Clinton won Kentucky," he added. "But the only reason Bill Clinton won in Kentucky was because Ross Perot was in the race. No Clinton has ever carried a majority of Kentucky. I think they're fooling themselves in the South and also the 1990s was a long time ago. It was another era. There weren't many conservative Democrats left. The party has become so liberal that it's left most conservative Democrats in the South. So I don't know. I don't think there is such a Clinton cache as there once was."
As for Hillary Clinton, Paul said it was important to point out these flaws with her being the odds-on favorite for the Democrats' 2016 nomination.
She is seen as the leader in her party and the potential leader in their nominating process," he said. "I think it's a mistake to let someone — I'm not talking about whether I'm running, but to let someone run unopposed. In the past we haven't gone after the opposing party's nominee to say who they are and what they represent. I think she is going to try to say, 'Oh, I'm different than President Obama. He's very unpopular. But i have different policies.' She was part of his administration and I really don't know of many, if any, policies they disagree on.
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For Pentecost this year we had nine Baptisms. The folks becoming baptized were people of all ages (6 mon to 35 years) which caused much celebration but also a bit of a catechetical task: How do we teach and preach about Baptism to people at different ages. We ended up having a big inter-generational class on Baptism. Here were some activities we did and some learning for next time:
1) Jesus Baptism
The basic point we wanted to get across to kids was that Jesus was baptized. We had some coloring sheets, mazes and a YouTube video we showed. I give this an A/A- for effectiveness.
I was anticipating 10 kids and 30 showed up so I had to divide them into groups. It was great to have parental help.
2) Following Jesus
This picture here shows one of a three groups that did this. We ended up with a sheet 100 feet long that made a great children's sermon!
The other thing we did was have kids color in a big poster that said "Come Follow Me." This was a great filler of time when the activities went to quick/slow.
I give this an A+
3) Forgiveness of sins
this one.
4) Adoption as child of God
This was great overall and the picture I have here is absurdly cute.
5) Baptism as Body of Christ; Communion of Saints
I think the craft was super cool. But it proved too hard for many kids. I think had I had a smaller crowd, I could have worked with the kids more; it was not at the "give them the supplies and model and let them figure it out" kind of thing.
There would be a way to simplify this in terms of multiple hearts; as it was, kids used lots of tape to make something that looked a bit like what I intended.
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Top Tamil Tiger leader's office bombed: Sri Lankan militaryOctober 3rd, 2008 - 2:32 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Oct 3 (IANS) The office of a top leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tiger Eelam's (LTTE) in Kilinochchi was Friday bombed by Sri Lankan fighter jets, a military spokesperson said.The Sri Lankan Air Force carried out two successive strikes, hitting the main office complex of "high profile LTTE leader Nadesan", said Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara. The LTTE's military base a short distance away was bombed simultaneously.
"The main office complex of terror leader Nadesan was located 500 m west of Triarukulam (in the northern town of Kilinochchi) and it was engaged around 9.20 a.m," Wing Commander Nanayakkara told IANS.
He said the building complex had been extensively damaged.
It is not known whether rebel leader Nadesan was in the building at the time of the attack.
Nadesan, who had briefly served in the Sri Lankan police service, joined the LTTE decades ago and was made head of the "LTTE police force" by elusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
He was later appointed as the political wing head of the outfit after S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in an air raid in November 2007.
There was no immediate reaction from the LTTE.
The defence ministry said the air strikes were launched "based on real-time information acquired through continuous ground and air surveillances conducted in these areas".
It said troops advancing from various directions were just 3.5 km away from Kilinochchi town, about 350 km north of the capital Colombo, and were determined to capture the rebels' "administrative capital" soon.
The LTTE has been fighting the Sri Lankan government to carve out a separate state for Tamils in the northern and eastern part of the island for the past three decades. Thousands have died in fighting between the LTTE and the military since late 2005.
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If you use Lightroom to crop your photographs, you'll definitely appreciate the new feature that we're going to highlight here. And this is a feature which allows us to crop our images to particular aspect ratios. You know in previous versions of Lightroom, in order to do that it was guess-work and it was near impossible. Now it's much easier and let me show you how. In order to work with this new feature, what we need to do is to activate the Crop tool. So navigate to the Develop module and then go ahead and click on this icon here, which is located in the tool strip.
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Take a look at what we have here. Right here you can see that we have the ability to crop to these different areas. We have some guides. These thin gray lines and these ratios are showing me that if I were to change my crop to that particular size, well I could crop this to the ratio of 8.5 x 11 or 16 x 9 or 1 x 1. How can we actually work with these aspect ratios and also how can we change what we're seeing here? When we're going to change the aspect ratios that we have, we can navigate to our tools pull down menu.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Just a few weeks ago they couldn't get enough horses to run at Arlington. Now, there are too many.
An overflow field of 14 was entered Wednesday for Friday's featured eighth race, a high-end allowance designed for horses not quite good enough to run Saturday in the Arlington Handicap. The 12 that made it in are good enough, however, both in terms of quality and bettability.
Everywhere you turn in this race there's a viable contender.
Jake the Flake found nine furlongs slightly too far in an allowance try earlier this meet. He's back now after a trip to Mountaineer, where he finished with a flourish and was third in a $79,000 handicap on July 2. At about one mile, the distance of Friday's race may help Jake the Flake finish with more authority than he did in his last start here.
He will have to, since a decent case can be made for no fewer than six other horses.
Minor Wisdom was right there in the Cardinal Handicap, a statebred stakes June 22, but came up just short in the stretch to finish fourth in a good field. His connections must be hoping the dry weather here holds. There has been little rain in this area the last several weeks, turning the turf course dry and hard - just the way Minor Wisdom likes it.
Royal Spy could do no wrong last summer at Lone Star Park, where he won two turf stakes by a combined 16 1/2 lengths. He has struggled in five races since then, but an eighth-place finish July 7 at Churchill came in a race Royal Spy probably needed after a lengthy layoff.
Dernier Croise and Astrologist were one-two in a May 16 Churchill allowance, then went in opposite directions. Dernier Croise tried the Grade 2 Firecracker Breeders' Cup and finished eighth, while Astrologist ran in another allowance race and scored an impressive 1 3/4-length win. Astrologist is the speed of Friday's race, and his chances depend heavily on who wants to run with him in the early going.
Finally, there is Al's Dearly Bred, winner of the Emerald Stakes on the Claiming Crown program last summer. Off from October until June, Al's Dearly Bred has been awesome in two starts this summer. He overmatched a Canterbury allowance group June 9, but then beat the stakes winner Promise of War - who also runs Friday - by more than seven lengths in a $40,000 stakes race.
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Workers and Unemployed Action (WUA; Irish: Grúpa Gníomhaíochta na n-Oibrithe is iad atá Dífhostaithe[2]) is an Irish political party based in Clonmel in South County Tipperary, set up in 1985 by Séamus Healy. WUA has one Teachta Dála (TD) and has endorsed and seen a number of its members elected to the South Tipperary County Council, Tipperary County Council, and Clonmel Borough Council.[3]
The organisation was set up in response to lack of employment and the economic situation in the South Tipperary area. Séamus Healy and his brother Paddy Healy had been involved in the socialist group, the League for a Workers Republic.[citation needed]
In the 2000 Tipperary South by-election, Séamus Healy was elected to the Dáil for Tipperary South, running as an independent candidate. At the 2002 general election, Healy was re-elected. Phil Prendergast was elected mayor of Clonmel in 2003.
In 2007, Prendergast left and joined the Labour Party after being headhunted to stand at the 2007 general election against Healy, but neither of them were elected.[4] However, Prendergast was nominated to run for the Seanad and was elected. The party was recognised by the Dáil registrar of political parties in September 2008.[5]
The party was involved in discussions with other left wing groups about a nationwide alliance at the 2009 local elections, which were not successful.[6]
At the 2009 local elections, Martin Henzey was returned on Carrick-on-Suir Town Council, while Séamus Healy, Pat English, Billy Shoer and Theresa Ryan were elected to Clonmel Borough Council. Healy and English were elected to South Tipperary County Council, for the Clonmel electoral area.[7]
The party joined the United Left Alliance which was founded in November 2010, and fielded Séamus Healy in Tipperary South at the 2011 general election. Séamus Healy was the first deputy elected for South Tipperary at the 2011 general election.
As a result of Healy's election to the 31st Dáil, Billy Shoer was co-opted to South Tipperary Country Council and Helena McGee was co-opted to Clonmel Borough Council.
In October 2012 the WUA left the United Left Alliance following disagreements with the Socialist Party and People Before Profit Alliance over the tax affairs of Independent TD Mick Wallace.[8]
Pat English was elected from the Clonmel Electoral Area to Tipperary County Council in the county council election held on 23 May 2014.[9]
In 2015 it signed up to the Right2Change agreement.
- ↑ "Constitution and Rules". Workers & Unemployed Action.
- ↑ "2015, Tithe an Oireachtais". Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ↑ "Fianna Fáil set to suffer over hospital funding freeze". Irish Examiner. 4 June 2004.
- ↑ South Tipperary Election 2007 www.rte.ie
- ↑ Registrar of Political Parties (26 September 2008). "Electoral Acts 1992 and 2001 Registration of Political Parties" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. Claremorris: Government Publications (78): 1167.
- ↑ Socialist Party proposals for Local Election Socialist Alliance Rejected Socialist Party Press Release, Indymedia website (4 December 2008)
- ↑ Election Results 2009 – How Ireland Voted, Irish Times, 9 June 2009
- ↑ "Seamus Healy withdraws from United Left Alliance over Wallace frustrations". RTÉ News. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ↑ Local Election Results for Tipperary County Council Irish Times. Retrieved: 9 June 2014.


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As the Local Marketing Operations Lead at Wonderschool you will help build and scale the bringing on parents to Wonderschool's on a local level. You will help with awareness, parent acquisition, and retention initiatives that build the Wonderschool brand locally and drive enrollment in our programs in your city. Expect to join a talented, energetic team in our local office.
We are not looking for remote team members. You will report to your local Community Manager and work closely with our Head of Marketing in HQ in San Francisco.
The best candidate for this role is energized and passionate about working at a very early-stage mission-driven startup.
This role requires a combination of marketing, selling, coaching of Directors, and working with the product team to automate tasks. You have 2-4 years experience in Marketing, Admissions, Communications or Business Development, preferably at a startup. You have experience in a few marketing channels (e.g., events, email marketing, social/content marketing, paid ads, etc.), as opposed to depth in one channel.
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BEIJING — Swoosh and stripes, meet Brand X.
As sports shoe companies such as Nike Inc. and Adidas-Salomon jump into China with both feet, they face a firmly entrenched homegrown rival that's hatching plans to trip them up: Li Ning Co.
BEIJING — Swoosh and stripes, meet Brand X.
As sports shoe companies such as Nike Inc. and Adidas-Salomon jump into China with both feet, they face a firmly entrenched homegrown rival that's hatching plans to trip them up: Li Ning Co.
For years, the Beijing-based athletic footwear and apparel manufacturer has had the run of a domestic market that is now just finding its 2.6 billion legs.
The company posts annual sales of about $200 million, hawking affordable, no-frills sneakers to the masses, which long have valued price over style and performance. Revenue and profit for the first six months of 2004 are up 50 percent from the same time last year, according to the company's latest report.
But now that high-end competitors such as U.S. firm Nike (with its highly recognizable swoosh) and German firm Adidas (with its signature stripes) have discovered China's burgeoning appetite for hip international brands, Li Ning finds itself on the defensive.
As it prepares to fight back, China's leading domestic sportswear manufacturer has taken a page from Mao Tse-tung, the late Communist leader whose ragtag troops scored an underdog victory over a larger Nationalist army in 1949 by building their base in rural areas and attacking from there.
"We are familiar with the history of China, with how the Communists defeated the Nationalists," said Abel Wu, Li Ning's marketing director. He said the firm's strategy was "similar to what Mao did."
Li Ning is just the latest domestic brand facing an onslaught of powerful foreign competitors, a trend hastened when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 and began lowering trade barriers.
The biggest hurdle--the requirement that foreign firms create joint ventures with China-based partners--is now history, leaving overseas companies free to compete on their own terms.
The competitive pressure, said one business expert, has winnowed weaker domestic brands. But it has also produced a number of Chinese companies that, through a combination of innovation and imitation, have bulked up to compete with big corporations here and abroad.
"Many will die, but the end result is not going to be a market dominated by foreign players," said Oded Shenkar, Ohio State University professor of international business and author of the book "The Chinese Century."
"This is a country that maybe doesn't take the Communists seriously anymore but has a strong national feeling," he said. "It is something that can be leveraged. ... The end result will be the emergence of Chinese multinationals."
But unlike Mao, who consolidated his forces while taking refuge in the caves of Yenan, Li Ning has nowhere to hide. And instead of battling one foe, the company faces a swarm of formidable competitors muscling into a market estimated to be as big as $5 billion a year.
Nike and Adidas have been hanging around China for years, quietly building brand loyalty through grass-roots basketball clinics and boutique sales.
Their target is a middle class that, by Adidas' estimates, is expected to surge from 60 million consumers in 2002 to 150 million by the end of the decade. China's population is 1.3 billion.
Now Canton, Mass.-based Reebok International Ltd. is taking the plunge with a campaign featuring favorite son and National Basketball Association star Yao Ming. All three firms are aiming to dramatically increase their retail outlets by 2008, when Beijing hosts the Summer Olympics. Their hope, said one industry analyst, is that the Games will galvanize a growing Chinese interest in sports and thus create a huge appetite for the latest in designer basketball, soccer and running wear.
"They think it's going to be a major turning point for Chinese consumer interest in athletic footwear and apparel," said analyst John Shanley of Susquehanna Financial Group.
Nike and Adidas are already experiencing healthy increases in their Asian sales. An Adidas spokesman said the company's China revenue was doubling every year and had far exceeded the $133 million mark. Nike's sales are growing so much in China, Shanley said, that the nation will eventually surpass Japan as the company's second-largest market, behind the United States.
Shanley downplayed the effect of Nike's marketing gaffe this month, when an offended Chinese government banned the ad campaign featuring NBA phenom LeBron James kicking cartoon dragons and other characters in Chinese attire.
Nike apologized--and it has a reservoir of commercial goodwill.
A recent marketing survey of 1,200 Beijing and Shanghai college students, key consumers for upscale sneakers, proclaimed Nike China's "coolest" brand--ahead of Sony Corp., Adidas, BMW and Coca-Cola Co. A recent Time magazine cover story all but crowned Beaverton, Ore.-based Nike as China's sneaker king.
But Li Ning executives say they aren't ready to raise the white flag.


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Music breathes life into lung transplant recovery
Jan. 28 - A Broadway musician who underwent two lung transplant surgeries is breathing life into his recovery with harmonica therapy. Larry Rawdon's condition has improved to the point where he is now teaching fellow transplant patients how to exercise their lungs with music. Ben Gruber reports.
The saying goes that 'music soothes the soul', but for Larry Rawdon it has done much more He says it probably saved his life. Rawdon spent most of his musical career as a professional cellist, working in orchestras on Broadway for hit musicals like CATS. But in 2002 everything changed. He was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a deadly lung disease with no cure. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LARRY RAWDON, LUNG TRANSPLANT PATIENT AND MUSICIAN, SAYING: "The nature of this disease for most of us is that you go along for quite a while and then it's like falling off a cliff." Dr. Cesar Keller, of the Mayo Clinic says at that point, Larry Rawdon, like most IPF patients, needed a lung transplant. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CESAR KELLER, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, LUNG TRANSPLANT PROGRAM, MAYO CLINIC, SAYING: "They have been living with a terminal lung condition and the lungs have been deteriorating to the point that they cannot survive without a transplant. But in that process not just the lung per say is altered. The respiratory muscles get affected, the diaphragm muscles get affected, if the disease has been long enough the entire muscle apparatus of the patient gets affected." And that's where the harmonica comes in. After two transplants, Larry Rawdon now has new lung and with the help of his instrument, is making a remarkable recovery. He and his doctor say it's the ideal workout for transplant recipients and he's sharing the news with fellow patients. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LARRY RAWDON, LUNG TRANSPLANT PATIENT AND MUSICIAN, SAYING: "I stumbled on this thing called high speed chugging which is making the harmonica sound like a locomotive and it takes zero musical talent and it really uses the diaphragm and I thought this is something I can get my peers to do." Rawdon has already completed two courses at Mayo with plans for many more. He says listening to his transplant peers play, is music to his ears.


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With climate change comes an increase in floods and extreme heatwaves in urban areas. Berlin, Germany, sought out a nature-inspired adaptation method, with measures to increase the city's ability to act as a sponge—absorbing rainwater and cooling itself.
In August, the senate of Berlin released "StEP Klima KONKRET", which details a plan for city climate action. The abstract states: "The goal is adaptation in the form of no-regret measures that would make social, economic, and ecological sense even without climate change." Thus, nature-based solutions are ideal in such a context.
In a natural ecosystem, rainwater is soaked up by the soil and plant life. Then, most of the water evaporates and the rest travels further into the ground. The rainwater cools the surrounding environment as it evaporates.
Cities on the other hand are made of concrete, glass, and steel, which draw in heat and repel water. Furthermore, as streets cannot absorb water, it's flushed away into sewers and is hindered from its natural evaporation and cooling processes.
That's where the concept of a 'sponge city' comes in, which seeks to preserve the benefits of this natural system by keeping the rain where it lands.
What infrastructure is needed to achieve this?
Namely, green roofs and walls, and urban wetlands. Furthermore, roadside trenches can build runoffs which retain rainwater.
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Lot of 3 French vintage jam pots in thick glass, of 500 milliliters capacity.
One jar is stamped "France"; one jar is stamped "BVB".
In the past these jars were sealed with paraffin and a piece of cloth; they can still be used for your traditional marmelades or be reinvented as salt pots, pencils or brushes pots, vases, candle holders...
2 jars are identical, one is slightly different (this kind of pots wasn't standardized).
Just note a small shard on the edge of one pot.
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Since the last about eight months now the Indian citizens have been continously exposed to one scam after anothe., Corruption at higher levels of politics and administration have become a daily affair. Involved are leaders and administrators who are in the highest positions of trust. It is both sad and frightening that these persons do not care before they indulge in corruption. It seems the only reason they exsist is to loot and amass tons and tons of money from the treasury. Greed is their god and corruption is their prayer.
Every area of governance is an area of scam. Mostof the politicians and top officials of the country are having wealth beyond their known sources of income. Yet they suffer niether from shame or guilt. Indeed almost all of them go scot free and their generations enjoy this wealth everafter. The few who get caught need not worry because the Indian courts move slower than snails in matters of dispensing justice. All of them are set free after years of trials. Foolish voters vote them back to power so that they can amass more wealth.
All this brings a deep sense of frustration in the common man . He feels terribly let down. He has nowhere to go and does not know what to do. Elections are held every five years and generally the choice is between less corrupt and more corrupt candidates.Most of the times the common man vents away his anger thru armchair discussions.
He is in search of a hero who can lift his morale and bring joy in his life. Who can make him forget the corrupt leaders and administrators.Someone who can make him proud of being an Indian
Thank God that there is in this country a great cricket player having the name Sachin Tendulkar. This man has been playing since last twenty years. He has played great innings and has risen to be now rated as the best batsman ever, Every time he steps out to bat Indians walk with him. Every run he scores they run with him. Every new record he makes they become a part of it. Even if f he does not score they still love him for the great moments of pleasure he has given them.
He makes them forget that they belong to a country of increasing corruption and lowering of moral values. He reminds them that in a dedicated manner they can also achieve and make meaningful contributions of which their fellow citizens can be proud. He gives them hope.
So while politicians and administrators are working hardin making India slide towards zero thank God we have Sachin the hero.


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The Blind Watchmaker (thing)
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|God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
|Argument from Design
|The Clock Theory
|Plan for bringing down corporate fast food chains
|The Extended Phenotype
|Ten reasons why creation scientists don't believe in evolution
|Existence of the System Administrator
|Adding a crystal of a solid to a solution super-saturated with that solid
|Watchmaker Theory
|Mickey Mouse watch
|278 Books You Should Have Read By Now
|A (Possible) Evolution of the Eye
|Richard Dawkins
|The Red Queen
|Argument from imperfection
|flying frog
|The Selfish Gene
|Burgess Shale
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Here we are.
I am the corn
and you are the bean plant.
Your roots intertwine
with mine
and embracing
we flourish together
in this field
that is life.
Originally published in Daniel Caño's Spanish/Mayan/English book of
poetry, Savage Prayer. Reprinted with permission.
Ten men clamber out of the creaking van,
Their sweaty bodies meeting a kiss
Of cool night air.
They drift, silently, sullenly
Toward the darkened church.
Mattresses lie, two or three to a room,
Along walls decorated with children's
Drawings and almost casual crucifixions.
Carl, Eddie, Jake and the others
Throw their worn packs and bags
Onto the makeshift beds, and John,
It's always John, is first to ask
If he can have his sack lunch now,
Not in the morning as we had planned.
"Sure," I say, almost as anxious as he
To assuage this remediable hunger.
Several echo John, and soon all
Are feasting on pb and j; apples, celery,
And other healthy fare remains on the table,
But they're happier now, even communicative.
One thanks me for setting a new pair of white socks
On each mattress. Another offers a juice cup
To a friend. "Lights out!" Rick calls at ten,
And no one argues, no one hesitates. Sleep
Knits once more the raveled sleeve of care,
Obliterates the hurt, soothes the jangled nerves.
Tomorrow will be another day,
Another cheerless day embroidered
With small triumphs, fragile dreams.
For all those who see "home" and all it means Disappear behind them;
For all those who cannot see a home In the days ahead of them;
For all those who dwell in Daily insecurity;


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Reprinted from the Austinist, a noble experiment in documenting a city and its social stratas that ended a couple years ago. I met lots of people who sweated and worked hard to make the website interesting, fun and provocative, and Benjamin Reed's 2007 review of my satirical comic book started a long friendship:
Tag Archives: East Austin
My Onion Interview
In 2007, I took some time off from painting to work on a book. Unbeknownst to me, the story I was about to write was a bit more autobiographical than I ever wanted to admit at the time, and the project took on the format of a comic book. In November, shortly after the book's publication, I was interviewed by Sean O'Neal of the AV Club, and my interview appearing in the Onion. Continue reading
Art in Context: the EAST tour
During the 2013 East Austin Studio Tour, I was interviewed by KLRU for their Art In Context program. I was asked about a variety of subjects during the hour long process, all done while I was working on my large commission of the Last Supper and greeting visitors into my studio during the busy tour. It was a fun afternoon, and the interview was an unexpected surprise. The whole segment was boiled down into a few awkward sentences, but overall, Art In Context presented a pretty accurate look at the East Austin Studio Tour. Here's what ramblings of mine that they chose to include in their short called: Perception.
Austin's Art Meltdown – Charlie Sheen Edition
Lately, there have been two sorts of meltdowns making the news on a daily basis. The tsunami stricken Fukushima nuclear plant provided a sad, gripping serial for the rest of the world to helplessly witness. On American shores, the citizenry got wrapped up in an altogether different meltdown: Charlie Sheen's dip into a facade of all too publicized insanity. I never took a minute to familiarize myself with the endless quotes and posted links and clips all over the internet until now, when recent events in Austin's art scene compelled me to write this long postponed article. If you haven't been paying attention, here's a timeline of the implosion on the scale of Sheen's debacle happening in your backyard.
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A Talk About the Really White Vigilante
An Interview with Wade Beesley
Wade Beesley
interview originally posted in January, 2006
Wade was one of the first members of Austin's art community I met when I moved here in 2002. Wade has made an indelible mark in Austin's art scene. Wade owned and operated Mojo's Daily Grind for ten years. While serving coffee and beer, Wade was personally responsible for its monthly exhibition schedule, performances, DJs, and starting its celebrated TV Smashes. The coffee shop took on a life of its own and became a celebrated stomping ground for the disenfranchised and creative elements that didn't have any other place to go. Annual TV Smashes took place, along with a free wall for graffiti and ample room by the bar for the posting of political and social activist tracts. Continue reading
An Interview with Shea Little
Shea Little
Shea is a life long resident of Austin who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. While studying design, bookmaking and printing, he began to run in an ever tightening circle with Jana Swec and Joseph Phillips. Together, they formed the SODALITAS Art Group, working in a collaborative group that churns out intricate graphic laden works depicting the urban environment and finding beauty in a steady sense of decay and worn imagery.
In addition to the collaborative work, Shea endlessly draws and takes notes in a series of sketchbooks, gathers rusty and discarded materials for his own works. Continue reading


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Two Billies swim in high-level meet
Fredericksburg High School swimmers Troy Kneese and Tony Martinez competed in the Texas Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association Championships at Palo Alto College on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1-2.
In order to be invited to compete, swimmers must have qualifying times that rank among the best in the state.
Kneese placed fifth in the 50- and 100-yard Backstroke and 10th in the 50-yard butterfly. Martinez placed sixth in the 200-yard freestyle, 14th in the 100-yard butterfly and qualified for finals in the 50-yard butterfly.
"Troy and Tony had incredible efforts and set personal best times in all of their events against some of the best swimmers in the state and in the nation in all UIL classifications," coach Mike Myers said. "Several junior national records were set during this meet. We are very proud of Troy and Tony in representing FHS at this level of competition."


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Enterprises should consider using search marketing for branding purposes, says Nathan Safran, director of research at Conductor, a provider of SEO platforms. Safran bases his assertion off a Conductor study released July 24 entitled The Branding Value of Search's Page 1.
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Maternity leave take two
Well, for those of you that don't know already Dr. Fielding is expecting baby number two in Feb 2018! Details on how long the leave are uncertain (for those of you with children, you understand why. If you don't have kids ask someone that does have a newborn...) She anticipates being back to the office mid summer.
For the time being she will be seeing patients as long as she can, but will not be accepting new patients beyond November 2017. If you are interested in joining the practice, please join the newsletter click here to stay in touch when she will be accepting new patients into the practice again.
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It is my plan to be adding much more information to the Insights page on tips to maximize your acupuncture treatments through healthy eating, self care, minimizing environmental exposures, and general tips about how to do some self care for common ailments that respond really well to lifestyle modification and supplementation.
For my wonderful committed patients that come in for general wellbeing and maintenance, take heart. A break is not a bad thing. Often it is a chance for us to see how acupuncture really impacts our lives, and places that we need to refocus our attention often come into view after a short break. BUT, I know that after a month most of you will be very eager to get back to treatments, so fret not. I have some wonderful acupuncturists that will be filling in for me. It won't be me treating you, but getting a different perspective on your state of health can be a wonderful addition to your journey, so all in all this can be a great thing for everyone.


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So this is all at a pretty high level of abstraction, but these Truman Project people are saying exactly what I want to hear. I feel a bit funny about the American Exceptionalism part, but as long as it's understood as conditional on our behaving better than everyone else, I'm okay with it. Plus, it's important for winning elections.
[Update]: I also like the fact that they analogize us to a foreign policy superhero. I have yet to hear one of the bad guys quoting Uncle Ben.
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